Ossos
aka Bones First screened in August 2014
Director: Pedro Costa. Cast: Nuno Vaz, Vanda Duarte, Mariya Lipkina, Isabel Ruth, Ana Marta, Miguel Sermão, Inës de Medeiros, Berta Susana Teixeira. Screenplay: Pedro Costa. Twitter Capsule:
Certainly charts its own course. If anything, sound and framing are too studied, story too opaque, but I dig what it's up to.
VOR:③
Portrays anhedonia without producing a strictly anhedonic experience. That's a feat, and palette and framings are unique. Grim auteurism, aestheticizing poverty nothing new, though.
